10 year experience of splenic injury: An increasing place for conservative management after blunt trauma

Injury

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 177-182

  Bain, I M ^a   Kirby, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENORRHAPHY; SPORT INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 0032052295     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(97)00170-8     Document Type: Article

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